Now nearly six months after Morgan Dana Harrington's disappearance, Virginia State Police have reported that a Charlottesville resident found the black T-shirt Harrington was last seen wearing near the corner of 15th Street and Grady Avenue Nov.
A report released by the American Association of University Professors revealed that the University pays its faculty the highest average salary of all higher education institutions in the state.
Despite a national trend in which universities across the nation are expanding the amount of students placed on respective waitlists, the University has decided to significantly lower its waitlist pool for the class of 2014. The University received a record-setting 22,524 applications this past year, compared to 21,830 last year, which held the past record.
[caption id="attachment_34471" align="alignleft" width="300" caption="The University's Law School maintained its 10th-place ranking on the nation's top list of schools.
[caption id="attachment_34447" align="alignleft" width="300" caption="The operating budget for fiscal year 2010-11 will see a 0.77 percent decrease from last year's budget, reflecting a reduction in state revenue sources.
The Barry M. Goldwater Scholarship and Excellence in Education Foundation presented all four of the University's nominees last week with the Goldwater Scholarship, which provides up to $7,500 per year to second- and third-year students who intend to enter the fields of mathematics, science and engineering.
Rep. Tom Perriello's, D-Charlottesville, campaign for congressional re-election raised $600,000 during the first fundraising quarter of 2010, making this the most successful fundraising quarter ever for the re-election effort, according to a Sunday press release from Perriello campaign officials. The new record continues the campaign's history of financial success, as it so far has raised $1.4 million, according to the press release.
As the deadline for state taxes - May 3 - gets closer, the General Assembly has ceased the free online service through which Virginians file their income taxes. The General Assembly passed a bill last month to replace "iFile" - a service that for 10 years has allowed almost all Virginians to file returns without any charge - with the more-restricted Virginia Free File program.
[caption id="attachment_34391" align="alignleft" width="300" caption="The new Student Council administration discusses its first order of business at last night's meeting.
People all across Charlottesville spent yesterday celebrating the birth of the University's founder - Thomas Jefferson - who would have turned 267 years-old. A celebration was held at Monticello in conjunction with the University in honor of Jefferson's birthday and his achievements.
The Virginia Foundation for the Humanities was awarded a $660,000 grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to be used for work on an electronically-based collection of sources related to the lives of early Americans. The project, entitled People of the Founding Era, combines a biographical dictionary and "prosopography" - a type of biography used in social history to examine relationships and connections between people and locations - to preserve those figures largely unknown to history who lived during the early 18th and 19th centuries, said Mark Saunders, manager of the Electronic Imprint of the University of Virginia Press. With this system, "one could look up where leading attorneys in 1820s Virginia came from, and if there is a correlation between place of origin and success," said Holly Shulman, founding director of the Documents Compass group, part of the Virginia Foundation for the Humanities. The effort will collect information about individuals in such fields as gender, slave status and place of birth, and seeks to provide a broader view of historical figures that makes it attractive to scholars who study more obscure groups that usually are not included in other databases, Saunders said. "We may know that a craftsman worked on the University of Virginia because he is referenced in Jefferson's papers ... We may know where he lived or how old he was ... but little else," Saunders said.
[caption id="attachment_34384" align="alignleft" width="273" caption="The dome of the McCormick Observatory will be painted white, and its linoleum floors will be replaced with wood to match the facility's original design.
[caption id="attachment_34365" align="alignleft" width="300" caption="Above, a heavily protected police line clears remaining rioters in the area.
[caption id="attachment_34363" align="alignleft" width="237" caption="In Educational Media Co. at Virginia v.
Tim Davis, a 27-year old Charlottesville employee for WNRN radio and victim of the April 5 Blue Ridge Parkway shooting, passed away at the University Medical Center Friday. Currently, 18-year old Christina Floyd, who also was injured in the shooting, is in stable condition and is expected to make a full recovery. Ralph Leon Jackson, the man suspected of shooting Davis and Floyd, is currently detained at Middle River Regional Jail in Verona, Va., without bond.
The University's Financial Aid Office will introduce several changes to the student loan process this summer to fall into accordance with a student-loan provision in the 2010 Federal Health Care Law. The loan overhaul will make the government sole lender of student loans, thus eliminating banks as institutional intermediaries.
Although several months have passed since the 7.0-magnitude earthquake devastated Haiti in January, the island nation is still very much on the minds of University faculty, staff and students. Hoos for Haiti, a University-wide fundraising campaign, reached its semester's fundraising goal of $100,000 this past weekend.
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The University recently hired Nina Morris as Sustainability Outreach Coordinator for the Energy and Utilities Department.
[caption id="attachment_34302" align="alignleft" width="300" caption="University community members show an intense interest in the UVA Bay Game demonstration held in Clark Hall yesterday.
